PAHO Nicaragua warns of increased risk of AIDS if not using condom

The issue of condoms is more specific. We can not neglect, if we neglect these positive cases will increase to 6.000casos next year, said Prosperi, told the local television Canal12.

The PAHO representative in Managua said that while Nicaragua is ELPAÍS with the smallest number of carriers deInmunodeficiencia Virus (HIV) in Central America is not puededescuidar disease.

We'll have more cases if we do not worry and take care delproblema he said.

Prosperi was referred to a study of PAHO whereby a 99por percent of young people over 16 years unarelacion have held at least sex without using condoms.

OPS The official noted that the majority of HIV carriers in Nicaragua is concentrated among people aged 20 to 34 years, which Esla productive population and nicaragüensesrepresentan authorities said 70 percent of total infections.

Of that population, 70 per cent of those affected are varonesy 30 percent are women, with a upward trend, wing feminization of the epidemic, ie that if we maintain medium-term, we esatendencia equal number of cases entrehombres and women, he warned.

He called for addressing the issue of sex and the use of depreservativo educational reform and moral values.

The virus was first detected in Nicaragua 1987. EFE

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